Colonialism As Civilizing Mission : Cultural Ideology in British India Book

'Torchbearers Upon the Path of Progress': Britain's Ideology of a 'Moral and Material Progress' in India. An Introductory Essay

PART I: TRIAL AND ERROR:

1. Dealing with Oriental Despotism: British Jurisdiction in Bengal, 1772-93

2. 'A Race of Monters' South India and the British 'Civilizing Mission' in the Later Eighteenth Century

3. Between Non-Interference in Matters of Religion and the Civilizing Mission: The Prohibition of Suttee in 1829

PART II: ORDERING AND MODERNIZING:

4. 'The Bridge-Builders': Some Notes on Railways, Pilgrimage and the British 'Civilizing Mission' in Colonial India

5. Taming the 'Dangerous' Rajput; Family, Marriage and Female Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century Colonial North India

6. What Is Your 'Caste'? The Classification of Indian Society as Part of the British Civilizing Mission

PART III: BODY AND MIND:

7. Sporting and the 'Civilizing Mission' in India,

8. 'More Important to Civilize Than Subdue'? Lunatic Asylums, Psychiatric Practice and Fantasies of 'the Civilizing Mission' in British India 1858-1900

9. The Sympathizing Hear and the Healing Hand: Smallpox Prevention and Medical Benevolences in Early Colonial South India

10. Perceptions of Sanitation and Medicine in Bombay, 1900-1914

PART IV: THE CIVILIZING MISSION INTERNALIZED:

11. National Education, Pulp Fiction and the Contradictions of Colonialism: Perceptions of an Educational Experiment in Early-Twentieth-Century India

12. In Search of the Indigenous: J C Kumarappa and the Philosophy of 'Gandhian Economics'

13. The Civilizational Obsessions of Ghulam Jilani Barq

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